Projects and Experts
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Dēmos is a non-partisan public policy research and advocacy organization founded in 2000. A multi-issue national organization, Dēmoscombines research, policy development, and advocacy to influence public debates and catalyze change.
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Michael Alvarez is a Professor of Political Science at Caltech, where his teaching and research focuses on electoral politics in the United States.
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A Professor of Political Science at MIT, Steven Ansolabehere studies elections, democracy, and the mass media. A member of the Caltech-MIT Voting Technology Project, he has studied both the reliability of different types of electronic voting systems and the effect of voter registration on turnout.
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The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law is a non-partisan public policy and law institute that focuses on fundamental issues of democracy and justice.
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This project aims to evaluate the current state of reliability and uniformity of U.S. voting systems; to establish uniform attributes and quantitative guidelines for performance and reliability of voting systems; and to propose specific uniform guidelines and requirements for reliable voting systems
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As part of its broader research focus on elections, campaign ethics, campaign finance, and the legislative process, the Center for American Politics and Citizenship at the University of Maryland is engaged in research projects on voting technology and ballot design specifically.
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Center for Democracy & Election Management was established at the School of Public Affairs at American University in 2002. Their broader goal is to pave the way for and strengthen democracy through improved electoral performance.
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Directed by early voting scholar Paul Gronke and housed at Reed College, the Early Voting Information Center provides news and research on and a state-by-state overview of early voting issues.
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Part of the Institute for Governmental Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, the Election Administration Research Center (EARC) aims to improve the administration of elections.
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Election Law @ Moritz, run through Moritz College of Law at the Ohio State University, contains both explanation and commentary on a wealth of election reform issues from a legal perspective.
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electionline.org provides daily news updates on election reform issues, as well as deeper analysis of selected topics, including recent reports on voter registration, recount procedures, and the progress in implementing the Help America Vote Act since 2002.
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FairVote develops and promotes practical strategies to improve elections at the local, state and national levels.
On electionreformproject.org:
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Edward B. “Ned” Foley is the Director of the Election Law @ Moritz project at the Ohio State University, where he is the Robert M. Duncan/Jones Day Designated Professor of Law.
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John Fortier is a Research Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, where he is a principal contributor to the AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project.
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Paul Gronke is an associate professor of political science at Reed College, where he coordinates the Early Voting Information Center.
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Thad Hall is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Utah. His research is primarily in the area of election reform, with a special interest in the administration of elections.
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Michael J. Hanmer is an assistant professor in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, where he specializes in American Politics, with a focus on voting behavior, public opinion, electoral reform, and political methodology.
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Richard Hasen is the William H. Hannon Distinguished Professor of Law Chair at the Loyola Law School in Los Angeles.
On electionreformproject.org:
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Paul Herrnson is the Director of the Center for American Politics and Citizenship and a Professor in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park.
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David Kimball is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. His studies on election reform have focused primarily on voting technology, split tickets, and the Help America Vote Act.
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Martha Kropf is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte. Her research specializes in issues surrounding the Help America Vote Act, voting technology, and ballot design.
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Jessica Leval is a former research assistant for the AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project.
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Thomas Mann is the W. Averell Harriman Chair and a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, where he co-directs the AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project.
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Jennifer Marsico is a research assistant for the AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project.
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Michael McDonald is an Assistant Professor of Government and Politics in the Department of Public and International Affairs at George Mason University and a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution.
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Norman J. Ornstein is a Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, where is the co-director of the AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project.
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Robert Pastor is the Executive Director of the National Commission on Federal Election Reform, also known as the Carter-Baker Commission, and the Director of the Center on Democracy and Election Management.
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Project Vote is a national nonpartisan, nonprofit 501(c)(3) that works to empower, educate, and mobilize low-income, minority, youth, and other marginalized and under-represented voters.
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Molly Reynolds is a former research assistant for the AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project.
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Timothy J. Ryan is a former research assistant for the AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project.
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Ted Selker is an Associate Professor at the MIT Media and Arts Technology Laboratory and a member of the Caltech-MIT Voting Technology Project. His recent election reform related work has focused on usability issues.
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Robert Stein is the Lena Gohlman Fox Professor of Political Science at Rice University. A specialist in urban politics and public policy, he has also studied voting behavior and vote centers.
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Charles Stewart III is a Professor of Political Science at MIT, where he is a member of the Caltech-MIT Voting Technology Project. His recent research on election reform explores the concept of residual votes and the accuracy and reliability of various voting systems.
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Daniel Tokaji is an Assistant Professor of Law at the Ohio State University's Moritz College of Law and the Associate Director of Election Law @ Moritz.
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Michael Traugott is an Adjunct Professor of Political Science and a Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Michigan, where his focus is on American politics. In the field of election reform, he has examined vote-by-mail systems and the usability of voting technology.
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The mission of the VoTeR center is to advise state agencies in the use of voting technologies and to investigate voting solutions and voting equipment to develop and recommend safe use procedures for their usage in elections.
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Raffaela Wakeman is a research assistant for the AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project
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Tova Andrea Wang is Vice President of Research at Common Cause. Her recent work emcompasses a number of areas of election reform.
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Wendy Weiser is the Deputy Director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at the NYU School of Law where she has contributed to the Center's work on voter registration and voting integrity.
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